For the past few weeks I've been noticing that every once in a while my room blower on our Lopi Pioneer (which is always kept on high speed) will slow down for a split second and then go back to normal speed. Sometimes at a higher feed rate it will almost sound like the fan is going to stall because it's slowing down and speeding up repeatedly.
Now it occurred to me that the problem might be electrical. The first time this happened was a day that we had an ice storm (but before things got really bad). That night we lost power for 3 days. The night power came back on, I couldn't turn the feed rate past medium or the blower would start "stalling". Last week I thought I saw a light dim a few times around the same time that I heard the blower slow down again.
Now today it's doing it. It's one of the coldest days we've had here, only about 8 degrees, and it's doing it again. But I don't have any lights on so I can't tell if they're dimming. We run mostly florescent bulbs anyway and I don't believe those dim.
Could electrical brownouts or perhaps a problem outside cause the blower to slow down and then speed back up again? That's what I'm thinking, but I find it odd that it's still doing this after a few weeks. We did have our connection fixed last year due to corrosion and that was causing our power to dim, so I can't imagine that we have a problem at the house again.
I just want to make sure it's not the blower or the control board because I can't afford the $85 house call for the tech to tell me that there is nothing wrong with it. Is there a way that I can troubleshoot?
Now it occurred to me that the problem might be electrical. The first time this happened was a day that we had an ice storm (but before things got really bad). That night we lost power for 3 days. The night power came back on, I couldn't turn the feed rate past medium or the blower would start "stalling". Last week I thought I saw a light dim a few times around the same time that I heard the blower slow down again.
Now today it's doing it. It's one of the coldest days we've had here, only about 8 degrees, and it's doing it again. But I don't have any lights on so I can't tell if they're dimming. We run mostly florescent bulbs anyway and I don't believe those dim.
Could electrical brownouts or perhaps a problem outside cause the blower to slow down and then speed back up again? That's what I'm thinking, but I find it odd that it's still doing this after a few weeks. We did have our connection fixed last year due to corrosion and that was causing our power to dim, so I can't imagine that we have a problem at the house again.
I just want to make sure it's not the blower or the control board because I can't afford the $85 house call for the tech to tell me that there is nothing wrong with it. Is there a way that I can troubleshoot?
